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Topic: Budget speeches

Siddaramaiah budget speech gives a fillip to Kannada. Exclusive OTT to be launched in Karnataka soon

The move, coming against the backdrop of actors complaining about lack of Kannada content on OTTs, will likely reduce the recent rift between the Congress and the film fraternity.

No room for pessimism—What Shanmukham Chetty said in free India’s first budget speech

On 26 November 1947, RK Shanmukham Chetty presented the first budget of independent India, calling for help and co-operation in maintaining peace, increasing production, and avoiding internecine quarrels.

In Sitharaman’s budget speech, a verse from Thirukkural on good governance, a quote from Apparao

Finance minister had quoted Tamil poet Thiruvalluvar in her 2020 and 2021 Union Budget speeches as well. Even PM Modi has mentioned lines from the poet on several occasions.

When Indian economy was liberalised—Manmohan Singh’s 1991 Budget speech

On 24 July 1991, finance minister Manmohan Singh presented the Union Budget for 1991-92 that changed the course of Indian economy. In his Lok Sabha speech, he quoted Victor Hugo to say, 'no power on earth can stop an idea whose time has come.'

Tourism has ‘same potential’ in India as agriculture & infra, says Modi in post-budget webinar

In the webinar 'Developing Tourism in Mission Mode’, PM Narendra Modi says tourism sector can increase with growing civic amenities, good digital connectivity & excellent infrastructure.

Budget 2023: Rural to urban, farmers to capital, how Sitharaman is reshaping Budget lexicon

There has been significant transition in Nirmala Sitharaman's choice of words over years, ThePrint finds after analysing budget speeches from the beginning of her tenure in 2019-20.

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Paper in MoSPI journal flags financial inclusion gap—highest among Hindus, lowest for Muslims

Research paper, however, finds lowest indebtedness level among Muslims at 12.3% & highest among Hindus at 14.9%. Overall national financial inclusion level at 87.2%, indebtedness at 14.7%.

From battle of wits and daring air strikes to artillery fury, new details emerge of Operation Sindoor

Fresh details of operation conducted by IAF, Army have come out in gazette notification giving citations of those who were awarded Vir Chakra for their bravery.

Deepfake on duty: when I asked AI to read Op Sindoor citations

On 21 Oct, a buzz went up that the govt had released full list of gallantry award recipients along with Op Sindoor citations. I put an AI caddy on the job. It took me into a never-ending rabbit hole.